Awesome! I’m already growing nostalgic for the days of serverside uploading hacks~

“..so for this example we’ll drop this image directly onto the drop target..

DOINK!”

Fantastic sound effects guys :)

In my previous comment I wrote input type=”file” between angle brackets. The forum software seems to apply HTML filters to plain text :(

Providing an image that has GPS coordinates would be cool…

It’d be interesting to read something about security. We are jumping from having crippled FILE fields where we are not allowed to use the clipboard to paste file paths, not even remove the selected file (all in the name of security) to being able to read the content file itself. It’s a great change that arouses some concerns.

Can I somehow write a file object literal in my code? I’m coding a proxy which retrieves files from the Internet for people’s java-scripts. People will use the proxy by setting a script tag like . My proxy will then grab the file and return a script which sets variable boom to contain the contents of the file. As the plan is to support arbitrary files I thought your abstraction for reading it out in different forms etc. would be good, but how much code do I need to send with each response in order to implement that?

What creepy tie-ins will this have with geoIP location inflicted on us by our respective ISP?